My Buddy sent me an email recently that I took to be dancing on the grave of my only serious blog addiction. Andrew Sullivan is planning on retiring. I hope he hands the reigns over to his crew and keeps some sort of remote executive function because I’ll miss his blog if it retires with him.<\/p>\n
My last post included a link to one of his posts on the loss of citizen participation that seems to follow the loss of local papers. (I had the wrong link for a while but just corrected it)<\/p>\n
My Buddy asked me:<\/p>\n
But will Harry’s blog ever end? Will he ever get tired?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To which I replied:<\/p>\n
Harry gets distracted periodically but mine is a lot less high maintenance. [than Sullivan’s blog]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I find a lot of great things on the Daily Dish offered up by a host of smart people with all the lurkers and dim wits sidelined so that they don’t muck up a good conversation. Here’s a post one of them offered up on a subject I am quite keen on – the inanity of the GOP<\/a> (not that lots of Democrats aren’t inane too Buddy. In fact I’ll have something to report on local leftish politics shortly regarding my meeting on Saturday)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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